Prof Tami Gold’s film My Country Occupied (1971) will be screened at BAM as part of the festival’s Retrospective 2025: “Un-American Activities”
Nov. 12 | 9:15PM
30min/Tickets are available:
BAM | Newsreel Retrospective (1968—1972)
In this moving film, the personal testimonies of Guatemalan Indians, peasants, and guerrillas are dramatized to provide the narration for a powerful overview of the history of US destabilization of democracy in Central America. My Country Occupied was inspired by the work of Santiago Álvarez.
Retrospective 2025: “Un-American Activities”, feature films from the Newsreel Collective and Third World Newsreel alongside works by other U.S. activist filmmakers from the 1960s–80s. Third World Newsreel (TWN) Brings Historic Newsreel Retrospective to BAM, Anthology Film Archives, and DOK Leipzig | Third World Newsreel
